below is a sample of my text file, this is how it looks in wordpad, it does not look as friendly in notepad. I figured out how to get date and time into variables so I'm ok on that front. I need to be able to capture the values from the measured column, JUST those numbers, any ideas on how to do that?

Here, $1 captures the first expression in parentheses in the regex (i.e. the date), and $2 captures the second expression in parentheses. And $1 and $2 are then copied into the $date and $time variables.

I changed the regex delimiters for {} instead of //, because that allows to use / characters (for the date) within the regex without making it too much more complicated.

This might still be a little bit cryptic for you, but I hope you start to get a sense of these constructs.

I get the constructs from reading online about how to use regex so I understand the code.

From my text file in my last post you see there is a table with some numbers entered into it, and what I'm trying to do is get the last number in the table, in the measured value column. So using these techniques I'm having a hard time matching and getting that number, are there any other parsing techniques I could use to pull that out?

So for example if somewhere in a messy text file there is this "Time: 12:00:00" I want a variable equal to 12:00:00

But in the sample file you posted later, the time format was different: "12:00", not "12:00:00". Quite obviously, the regex I gave you would match "12:00:00", but would not match "12:00". So, in brief, you might have to adapt the regex I posted in accordance with the true format of your time stamps.